[Opening — playful orchestra]
[Spoken]
“What shall we do tonight?”
“Well… we could stay home.”
[Orchestra stops]
“Stay HOME?!”
[Huge orchestral flourish]
“My dear friend, when there’s an enormous silver screen waiting for us?”
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[Verse 1]
Put on your coat, we’re going out,
There’s something you should see!
A hundred different worlds tonight
Are waiting for you and me!
Grab the tickets!
Find your seat!
Popcorn? Yes, indeed!
The lights go down,
The curtains part—
And off we go at speed!
One moment we’re just sitting there,
The next we’re flying high!
Perhaps with Superman above the clouds,
Sailing through the sky!
Then suddenly we’re somewhere else,
Where witches sing and fly—
Good heavens, we’re in Wicked now!
How did we get so high?!
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[Chorus]
Let’s go to the pictures!
Come on, don’t be late!
There’s adventure at seven,
And romance at eight!
At nine there’s a monster!
At ten, outer space!
And before you know what’s happened,
You’ve traveled every place!
So grab yourself some popcorn!
Come take a seat with me!
Because anything can happen
At the cinema, you see!
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[Verse 2]
Perhaps we’ll visit Pandora,
Where mountains touch the skies!
Then race across the sands of Dune
With wonder in our eyes!
We could tumble into Minecraft,
Where everything’s a square!
Build ourselves a little house—
[Spoken]
“Is that thing following us?”
“Oh, dear.”
[CREEPER HISS]
[Orchestra crashes]
“RUN!”
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[Fast musical break]
Run through the lobby!
Straight past Screen Three!
Someone save the popcorn!
Never mind me!
Back through the doorway!
Into our chairs!
Good!
Everybody’s here?
[Pause]
Splendid!
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[Verse 3]
There’s racing around corners,
There’s heroes saving towns!
There are dinosaurs still finding ways
To chase poor people down!
There are dragons!
Robots!
Aliens!
And creatures big and small!
And somehow Tom Cruise still insists
On doing it all!
[Spoken]
“Doesn’t that man ever take a holiday?”
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[Chorus]
Let’s go to the pictures!
Come laugh and come cry!
We can travel through the universe
Without learning how to fly!
We can cheer for the heroes!
We can boo at the crooks!
And discover brand-new stories
That we haven’t found in books!
For two delightful hours,
You can be whoever you please!
That’s the wonderful, ridiculous
Magic of the movies!
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[Bridge — orchestra becomes warm and sweeping]
But perhaps the greatest magic
Isn’t what’s upon the screen.
It’s sitting in the darkness
With people you’ve never seen.
For just a little while,
A hundred strangers share
The same laugh,
The same surprise,
The same story playing there.
Somebody gasps behind you.
Someone whispers, “Oh, no…”
Then everyone starts laughing
At the very same joke.
And for those couple hours,
Whatever waits outside
Can wait beyond those theater doors…
While we enjoy the ride.
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[Orchestra begins building]
So bring on the superheroes!
Bring on worlds unknown!
Bring on the witches singing!
Bring on creatures made of stone!
Bring space
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